From our experience, three of those five are all good on that list. From our experience, put No. 2 in the No. 1 spot, move No. 1 to the No. 5 spot and elevate No. 5 to the No. 2 slot.

If any of them were ever to be spoofed on “Saturday Night Live” — and I’m thinking of Ben Affleck’s portrayal of Olbermann (and Miss Precious Perfect) and his “Countdown” show — they’d try to laugh it off on the outside but it would simply tear them apart on the inside.

Carrying this further, we have another two-week gap to speed through on what we learned heading into the new school year:

== With Vin Scully, the Wall Street Journal says he uses too many words — and maybe we value that in L.A. (linked here)

== The MLB already has its post-season schedule mapped out between TBS and Fox … it starts Wednesday, Oct. 7 and could finish on Thursday, Nov. 5 (linked here) Yup, the World Series begins Oct. 28 — the latest in history.

== As someone named “The Ruckmaker” says: “So newspaper columnists are irrelevant because their thoughts get published on paper, but online columnists are more relevant because their thoughts are published online. Is that it?” (linked here)

== Sportswriters gamble? What are the odds of that happening? (linked here)

== AND FINALLY:

= What if the NHL bailed out on Versus and signed up with … The Food Network (linked here). Have another Tim Horton’s donut.

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